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27 Nov 2005, 1:26 pm
The amendment is supported by former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and by over 30 retired generals of the U.S. armed forces. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 8:45 am
[JURIST] A Pentagon spokesperson has said that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [official profile] is authorized to override the new Department of Defense Directive [PDF text; JURIST report] released Tuesday requiring all interrogations of detainees to be conducted in a humane manner. [read post]
21 Jun 2005, 1:22 pm
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan pointed to some 10 previous investigations [press release] and maintained that Defense Department and Pentagon investigations would continue as necessary with any guilty parties being held [read post]
8 Apr 2005, 5:46 am
[JURIST] In a letter [text] sent to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, slammed the Defense Department's proposed changes to the guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants for violating protections outlined in the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
30 Mar 2005, 10:05 am
[JURIST] The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals [DOD backgrounder] for all Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees have been completed. [read post]
17 Mar 2005, 7:39 am
[JURIST] The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld [official biography], according to a classified Defense Department report. [read post]
20 Dec 2004, 2:48 pm
[JURIST] The Department of Defense announced Monday that according to a DOD panel a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay was wrongly classified as an enemy combatant and would be released soon. [read post]
7 Dec 2004, 5:16 pm
[JURIST] A long-awaited reported to Congress by the US Defense Department Inspector General has concluded that "leadership failures" by multiple Air Force secretaries, military chiefs of staff, legal officers and superintendents of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs resulted in a decade of sexual abuse and harassment of female cadets at the elite facilty. [read post]
30 Jul 2004, 11:52 am
Hearings to determine the legality of prisoners' detention by the US military at Guantanamo Bay will begin later Friday, according to the Defense Department. [read post]
11 Jul 2004, 7:17 am
DeForest Soaries, chairman of the US Election Assistance Commission, had alerted Homeland Defense Secretary Tom Ridge that no federal agency was authorized to move the elections. [read post]
21 Feb 2003, 5:29 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought last week [JURIST report] against President Bush and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld by a coalition of US soldiers, parents of US soldiers and Congressmen challenging the authority of the President and the Secretary of Defense to wage war against Iraq absent a clear declaration of war by the United States [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) told reporters yesterday that Defense Secretary Ash Carter and counterterrorism official Lisa Monaco are working on a plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, DefenseOne reports. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Specifically, it requires the DNI or Secretary of Defense give 30 days’ advance written warning to SSCI and HPSCI in connection with creation of new SAPs pertaining to intelligence activities, intelligence-related activities, or covert action. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
The new numbers are far greater than what the Defense Department initially claimed last week. [read post]
31 Dec 1969, 4:00 pm
Brian McKeon, principal undersecretary of defense for policy, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “it is no coincidence that the recent ISIS videos showing the barbaric burning of a Jordanian pilot and the savage execution of a Japanese hostage each showed the victim clothed in an orange jumpsuit, believed by many to be the symbol of the Guantanamo detention facility. [read post]
